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Swingin’ Sweetie

Artist:Gil Elvgren
Date:1968
Medium:Oil on stretched canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 24" X 30" Framed 32" X 38"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Pin Up Art For The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company
Price: Sold
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This original published pin-up painting by Gil Elvgren appeared as a 1968 Brown & Bigelow calendar with the title “Swingin’ Sweetie”. A classic offering from the very tail end of the pin-up craze when the summer of love swept in a new style that wreaked havoc on earlier presentations of pin-up girl femininity. While some artists tried to respond to the changes in culture by making their paintings increasingly explicit, or creating gimmicky visions of futuristic space girls, Elvgren continued presenting classic visions of girl next door sensuality. This double entendre-laden cheesecake scene shows a rockabilly-styled, full-skirted model exposing her stockings and garters to wild effect as she plays in a rubber tire tree swing. The painting is in a pristine state of conservation and comes from the estate of noted pioneering pin-up historian, collector and author Charles Martignette who in 1996 co-wrote The Great American Pin-Up, the first comprehensive look at American pin-up art.

As featured in The Great American Pin-up book from the collection of the author Charles Martignette as shown here.
As featured in The Great American Pin-Up from the collection of the author Charles Martignette.
Verso view of pristine untouched back canvas and stretcher bars
Verso view of pristine untouched back canvas and stretcher bars
Framed view in handsome contemporary gallery frame.
Framed view in handsome contemporary gallery frame.

Swingin’ Sweetie

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Brown & Bigelow, Charles Martignette, Gil Elvgren, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2016

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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